Michael Daley keeps the criticism coming. Plus: key promises this week and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers spray
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has tried to seize the narrative over the Allianz stadium knock-down, after a court lifted an injunction to allow the demolition to resume on Friday. The decision came at the end of a week in which the stadium fight came to dominate the campaign, thanks to a fiery display from Labor leader Michael Daley on Alan Jones’s breakfast show. On Tuesday, Daley told the presenter he would sack him and the rest of the government appointees on the SCG trust. “We need a new broom,” Daley said. “… thank you for your service”.
The $730m for the stadium rebuild is a relatively small amount of the state’s $87.2bn infrastructure budget, but on Friday Daley continued to portray it as “emblematic” of the government’s style and priorities: “They change their minds, they don’t do the planning. When the business case doesn’t stack up, they ignore it anyway. Communities aren’t consulted. Plans aren’t done.” It follows weeks of Labor hammering its “schools and hospitals, not stadiums” message.
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